The Innkeeper

Chapter 1180 Eternity in a few minutes

At any given moment, even when he was alone, there were a number of beings keeping an eye on Lex. Since his system had a soul, it could somewhat be considered a being, and since it was inside Lex's soul, it was more or less paying attention. Mary, too, had a permanent connection to Lex, and so could connect to him whenever she wanted.

There was that mysterious being from the Primary realm who just decided to pop into the Inn one day. It was unlikely he ever consciously paid attention to Lex, but a being of his caliber would always be aware of anyone he had ever paid attention to.

Moreover, not only could he see Lex, he could foresee exactly how his entire life would play out from a single glance. It was not prophecy that he would use, just probability and prediction. The scale upon which such a being operated was outside the realm of understanding of mere mortals life Lex.

Then he was also connected to two Sovereigns. Who knew if they could peer through space and time and find him whenever they wished? There was the sword inside of his soul, and although it was not a living entity, who could tell if it could serve as a conduit for a powerful being to peek into his soul?

There could be any number of more powerful beings spying on him at any given moment. The more lex comprehended the abstract powers wielded by immortals, the more he understood that he was a genuine ant in front of the powerful and mighty.

Although he could now duke it out with some Earth Immortals, he was likely an insignificant ant in front of Heavenly Immortals or Celestial Immortals, not to mention Dao Lords. There were also Deities, whose powers were entirely unique. Divine energy was much too versatile in what it could achieve. He could not say for certain that there wasn't someone out in the universe capable of spying on him using it.

Yet, in the moment that Lex opened the Fable of Time, every single entity connected to him in any way whatsoever, lost sight of him. Not only that, they were not even cognizant of this change, or capable of perceiving that anything had happened at all.

Only and only Jack sensed something amiss, and that too was because Jack was actually still just Lex.

Depending on the perspective, such a period did not last long, or lasted an eternity. When Lex reappeared in the cognisance of the universe, only a few minutes had passed on his quest timer.

He looked at the book in his hand, dumbfounded, as it faded away. fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com

Lex had lost a few minutes of his time, and he had no recollection of what had happened in those few minutes.

But unlike everyone else, even Mary who had been sitting on his shoulder the entire time but still failed to be aware of him, he knew distinctly why he had no memory of those few minutes.

In his brain, he sensed a seal. More importantly, it was a self administered seal. It was not even that powerful, and all Lex would require was a simple thought to undo it. After all, the only thing the seal contained were his memories from those few minutes.

Yet Lex knew that he could not, or rather, should not ever undo that seal. A feeling of overwhelming dread filled him at the thought of undoing that seal, a kind that he had never felt before.

What kind of superpower had he not seen before? What kind of powerful entity had he not encountered? All they could do was kill him, and he had long become accustomed to such pressure.

But the feeling he got from his own seal of his own memories outweighed the threat of death infinitely.

Lex sighed. Yet another, overpowered, earth shatter, probably universal level secret was hiding in his body. It was like he was some kind of collector.

Lex diverted his attention away from the seal in his mind, because there was one more seal that had been added to his body, once again by his own hand. Yet while the seal on his memories was simple, the seal in his body was the very peak of what he could achieve, or perhaps even beyond what he could ordinarily achieve.

This new seal was even stronger than the ones that were sealing his cultivation level. But, oddly enough, the seal had not come into effect yet.

He could feel that it would need about one exact day to activate, so until then he still had access to the thing it was supposed to lock away.

Of course, the thing that was going to soon be sealed away was his newly gained affinity for time! He had no idea how he had gained it, because he could distinctly feel that he had not used his cultivation technique recently.

Such a thing would leave traces within his body and his energy. So he had, somehow, mysteriously gained a time affinity, and then for reasons unknown decided to seal it, giving himself only enough time to perhaps overcome the obstacle in front of him.

"Thanks Lex," Mary said sweetly as a wonderful smile bloomed on her face. "I don't know how you did it, but I can feel you've given me a wonderful treasure related to time. I promise you, you won't regret it."

"Yeah no problem," Lex said, as he activated his own affinity, and began feeling the flow of time around him.

It was harder than it seemed, because he felt no different at all. His perception of time was exactly the same as before. Moreover, he did not feel like he had any influence on time at all, so he basically couldn't do anything with this affinity.

But he would not give up so easily. This required some testing, so Lex turned to look towards the hill, and tried moving towards it. Maybe he'd be able to sense the difference in the flow of time then.